ich problem..

mtronearl

mtronearl

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i have a couple of questions about ich. 1. How long does it last 2. what is the best treatment fot ich. 3. will it effect live rock.
I have had an ich problem for almost seven days and i am treating it with ich attack by kardon, aqua herbals or something like that, and it started to look like it was working but the last few days my scopas tang looks as bad as it did when we first noticed it was sick. my jewel damsel is also starting to lose color. FAST. and all my fish are rubbing themselves on rocks so hard that you can see the scratches on them. what do i do to cure this ASAP
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

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Originally Posted by mtronearl
http:///forum/post/2485503
i have a couple of questions about ich. 1. How long does it last 2. what is the best treatment fot ich. 3. will it effect live rock.
I have had an ich problem for almost seven days and i am treating it with ich attack by kardon, aqua herbals or something like that, and it started to look like it was working but the last few days my scopas tang looks as bad as it did when we first noticed it was sick. my jewel damsel is also starting to lose color. FAST. and all my fish are rubbing themselves on rocks so hard that you can see the scratches on them. what do i do to cure this ASAP
Welcome to the boards! Ich attack will not work. What you saw was the natural life cycle of the parasite. They drop off to reproduce. What all is in your tank? Do you have corals? Do you have a refractometer?
 
mtronearl

mtronearl

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sepulatian
Welcome to the boards! Ich attack will not work. What you saw was the natural life cycle of the parasite. They drop off to reproduce. What all is in your tank? Do you have corals? Do you have a refractometer?
In my tank i have a snowflake eel, a scopas tang, a juvenille emporor or halfmoon angel, a coral beauty, and a jewell tang. i have some hemit vrabs and other inverts as well as an anenome. i have just recently setup a quarantine tank to treat all the fish with copper.
 
waterlogged

waterlogged

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Originally Posted by mtronearl
http:///forum/post/2488802
sepulatian
In my tank i have a snowflake eel, a scopas tang, a juvenille emporor or halfmoon angel, a coral beauty, and a jewell tang. i have some hemit vrabs and other inverts as well as an anenome. i have just recently setup a quarantine tank to treat all the fish with copper.
If you do use copper, the people here usually recommend cupramine.
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

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If you are going to use copper be sure you monitor the copper level twice a day. You have copper sensitive fish in there, the eel, angels, and tangs. Seachem makes the test kit for cupramine.
 
florida joe

florida joe

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Originally Posted by sepulatian
http:///forum/post/2488895
I'm sorry, I missed this. Buy the copper kit that goes with it. I believe it is made by fasTesT
Seachem makes Cupramine they also stress using their test kit also made by seachem just a side note having had trouble with their test kit in the past and many conversations with there tec check to make sure you are getting a true reading by using there teat regent included with the test kit
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

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Originally Posted by mtronearl
http:///forum/post/2488844
i am using seacure from aquarium systems, is this ok??

Originally Posted by florida joe
http:///forum/post/2489850
Seachem makes Cupramine they also stress using their test kit also made by seachem just a side note having had trouble with their test kit in the past and many conversations with there tec check to make sure you are getting a true reading by using there teat regent included with the test kit
Right, but he isn't using cupramine. That is why I said to use the test that goes with the copper that he is using.
 
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